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Oleg Melnichenko Associate Researcher Affiliate Researcher, Oceanography [Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Phone: (808) 956-0747 Fax: (808) 956-9425 Email:

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Refereed Publications

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• Li Yi, D., O.V. Melnichenko, P. Hacker, and K. Fan, 2022: Satellite-Observed Time and Length Scales of Global Sea Surface Salinity Variability: A Comparison of Three Satellite Missions. Remote Sensing, 14 (21), 5435, doi:10.3390/rs14215435. IPRC-1582.
• Melnichenko, O., P. Hacker, and V. Muller, 2021: Observations of Mesoscale Eddies in Satellite SSS and Inferred Eddy Salt Transport. Remote Sensing, 13 (2), doi:10.3390/rs13020315. IPRC-1502.
• Müller, V., and O.V. Melnichenko, 2021: Meridional Eddy Heat Transport Variability in the Surface Mixed Layer of the Atlantic Ocean. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, , doi:10.1029/2021JC017789. IPRC-1548.
• Yu, L., F. M. Bingham, T. Lee, E. P. Dinnat, S. Fournier, O. Melnichenko, W. Tang, and S. H. Yueh, 2021: Revisiting the Global Patterns of Seasonal Cycle in Sea Surface Salinity. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 126, doi:10.1029/2020JC016789. IPRC-1510.
• Müller, V., and O.V. Melnichenko, 2020: Decadal changes of meridional eddy heat transport in the subpolar North Atlantic derived from satellite and in-situ observations. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 125 (5), e2020JC016081, doi:10.1029/2020JC016081. IPRC-1442.
• Yi, D. L., O. Melnichenko, P. Hacker, and J. Potemra, 2020: Remote sensing of sea surface salinity variability in the South China Sea. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 125 (12), doi:10.1029/2020JC016827. IPRC-1489.
• Melnichenko, O.V., P. Hacker, F. Bingham, and T. Lee, 2019: Patterns of SSS variability in the eastern tropical Pacific: intra-seasonal to inter-annual time-scales from seven years of NASA satellite data. Oceanography, 32 (2), 20-29, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2019.208. IPRC-1377.
• Vinogradova, N., ..., O.V. Melnichenko, et al., 2019: Satellite Salinity Observing System: Recent Discoveries and the Way Forward. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 243, doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00243. IPRC-1402.
• Kao, H.-Y., G.S.E. Lagerloef, T. Lee, O.V. Melnichenko, T. Meissner, and P. Hacker, 2018: Assessment of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity. Remote Sensing, 10 (9), 1341, doi:10.3390/rs10091341. IPRC-1338.
• Amores, A., O.V. Melnichenko, and N.A. Maximenko, 2017: Coherent mesoscale eddies in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre: 3D structure and transport with application to the salinity maximum. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 122 (1), 23-41, doi:10.1002/2016JC012256. IPRC-1231.
• Amores, A., S. Monserrat, O.V. Melnichenko, N.A. Maximenko, 2017: On the shape of sea level anomaly signal on periphery of mesoscale ocean eddies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44 (13), 6926-6932, doi:10.1002/2017GL073978. IPRC-1262.
• Melnichenko, O.V., A. Amores, N.A. Maximenko, P. Hacker, and J.T. Potemra, 2017: Signature of mesoscale eddies in satellite sea surface salinity data. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 122 (2), 1416-1424, doi:10.1002/2016JC012420. IPRC-1236.
• Melnichenko, O.V., P. Hacker, N.A. Maximenko, G. Lagerloef, and J.T. Potemra, 2016: Optimum interpolation analysis of Aquarius sea surface salinity. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 121 (1), 602-616, doi:10.1002/2015JC011343. IPRC-1164.
• Potemra, J.T., P. Hacker, O.V. Melnichenko, and N.A. Maximenko, 2016: Satellite estimate of freshwater exchange between the Indonesian Seas and the Indian Ocean via the Sunda Strait. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 121 (7), 5098-5111, doi:10.1002/2015JC011618. IPRC-1193.
• Davis, A., E. Di Lorenzo, H. Luo, A. Belmadani, N.A. Maximenko, O.V. Melnichenko, and N. Schneider, 2014: Mechanisms for the emergence of ocean striations in the North Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41 (3), 948-953, doi:10.1002/2013GL057956. IPRC-1044.
• Melnichenko, O.V., P. Hacker, N.A. Maximenko, G. Lagerloef, and J.T. Potemra, 2014: Spatial Optimal Interpolation of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity: Algorithms and Implementation in the North Atlantic. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 31 (7), 1583-1600, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00241.1. IPRC-1052.
• Belmadani, A., N.A. Maximenko, J.P. McCreary, R. Furue, O.V. Melnichenko, N. Schneider, and E. Di Lorenzo, 2013: Linear wind-forced beta-plumes with application to the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 43 (10), 2071-2094, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-12-0194.1. IPRC-990.
• Melnichenko, O.V., N. Maximenko, N. Schneider, and H. Sasaki, 2010: Quasi-stationary striations in basin-scale oceanic circulation: Vorticity balance from observations and eddy-resolving model. Ocean Dynamics, 60 (3), 653-666.
• Maximenko, N., P. Niiler, M.-H. Rio, O.V. Melnichenko, L. Centurioni, D. Chambers, V. Zlotnicki, and B. Galperin, 2009: Mean dynamic topography of the ocean derived from satellite and drifting buoy data using three different techniques. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 26, 1910-1919.
• Maximenko, N.A., O.V. Melnichenko, P.P. Niiler, and H. Sasaki, 2008: Stationary mesoscale jet-like features in the ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08603, doi:10.1029/2008GL033267.
• Ivanov, L.M., O.V. Melnichenko, C.A. Collins, V.N. Eremeev, and S.V. Motyzhev, 2007: Wind induced oscillator dynamics in the Black Sea revealed by Lagrangian drifters. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L13609, doi:10.1029/2007GL030263.
• Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, O.V. Melnichenko, and N. Wells, 2007: On long baroclinic Rossby waves in the Tropical North Atlantic observed from profiling floats. J. Geophys. Res., 112, C05032, doi: 10.1029/2006JC003698.
• Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2005: Fall-Winter current reversals on the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35, 902-910.
• Ivanov, L.M., and O.V. Melnichenko, 2005: Determination of Mesoscale Surface Currents in Shallow Water Regions According to the Data of High-Frequency Radar Measurements. Phys. Oceanogr., 15 (2), 92-104, doi: 10.1007/s11110-005-0032-2.
• Collins, C.A., L.M. Ivanov, O.V. Melnichenko, and N. Garfield, 2004: California Undercurrent variability and eddy transport estimated from RAFOS float observations. J. Geophys. Res., 109 (C5), doi: 10.1029/2003JC002191.
• Collins, C.A., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2003: Seasonal Variability of the California Undercurrent: Statistical Analysis Based on Trajectories of Floats with Neutral Buoyancy. Phys. Oceanogr., 13 (3), 135-147, doi:10.1023/A:1025090801764.
• Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, L.H. Kantha, T.M. Margolina, O.V. Melnichenko, and Y.A. Poberezhny, 2003: Lagrangian predictability of high-resolution regional model: the special case of Gulf of Mexico. Non. Proc. Geophys., 20, 1-20.
• Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, T.P. Korzhova, T.M. Margolina and O.V. Melnichenko, 2003: Analysis of sparse and noisy ocean current data using flow decomposition: I: Theory. II: Applications to Eulerian and Lagrangean data. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 20, 478-512.
• Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, T.M. Margolina, and O.V. Melnichenko, 2002: Probabilistic stability of a simple atmospheric model to differently scales perturbations. J. Atmos. Sci., 59 (19), 2860-2873.
• Chu, P.C., L.M. Ivanov, L. Kantha, O.V. Melnichenko, and Yu. A. Poberezhny, 2002: Power decay law in model forecast skill. Geophys. Res. Let., 29 (15), 38-1-38-4.
• Ivanov, L.M., T.M. Margolina, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1999: Prediction and Management of Extreme Events Based on a Simple Probabilistic Model of the First-Passage Boundary. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (and Solar System), 1 (2), 73-79.
• Kirwan, A.D., L.M. Ivanov, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1994: Prediction of the Stochastic Behavior of Nonlinear Systems by Deterministic Models as a Classical Time-Passage Probabilistic Problem. Non. Proc. Geophys., No. 1, 224-233.
• Eremeev, V.N., A.D. Kirwan, L.M. Ivanov, S.V. Kochergin, O.V. Melnichenko, and R.R. Stanichnaja, 1992: Reconstruction of oceanic flow characteristics from Quasi-Lagrangian data. Part 2: Characteristics of the large-scale circulation in the Black Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 97 (C6), 9743-9753.
• Eremeev, V.N., L.M. Ivanov, S.V. Kochergin, and O.V. Melnichenko, 1992: Seasonal variability and types of currents in the upper layer of the Black Sea. Phys. Oceanogr., 3 (3), 193-208, doi: 10.1007/BF02197068.

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